There were two feuds in chief, the one on sea
the other on land. Corcyra had hated Corinth
for two and a half centuries. On land there was a
feud as bitter. The chief military power of the
district (to use grandiose language) was that of the
Ambraciots on the north, whose chief city was
Ambracia, a Corinthian colony, a town of some
7000 citizens.[Beloch, Bevolkerung, p. IQ4; Thuc. ii. 80. 3.] Their neighbours, the Amphilochians to the east of the Ambraciot Gulf and the
Acarnanians to the south of it, had fallen at logger-
heads with thern concerning the chief town of
district, Amphilochian Argos, near the head
the gulf. Amphilochians first dwelt in this town.
Later, there came Ambraciot settlers and lived with
them side by side. The original townsfolk learnt
Greek ways and speech from them. Their Amphi-
lochian kinsfolk remained barbarians. Presently the